LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Five persons, comprising four male adults and a house wife, drowned in an attempt to escape being kidnapped by bandits at Chakumi village in Gurdi ward of Abaji area council of Abuja. It was reported that Chakumi shares boundary with neighboring Daku village through river Gurara in Dobi ward of Gwagwalada area…
LAGOS February 1st (newsrangers)-Gunmen in Nigeria have killed 11 security agents and several villagers after attacking remote villages in the north-central state of Niger, its governor Alhaji Bello said on Monday. Gangs have been terrorising areas of northern Nigeria in recent years, forcing thousands to flee and perpetrating mass kidnappings for ransom. Bello said the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Villagers have field day carting away famr products as Nigeria seized Boko Haram Leader’s farm in Sambisa forest. The Nigeria Army fight against the terrorist Boko Haram continues to gain momentum and it appears the Nigerian soldiers are now also getting the much needed equipments like special Tucano planes which further airplane…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Not a few residents of Ketu-speaking villages in Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State were brutalised by soldiers who escorted herdsmen to graze in the communities, prompting residents and monarchs to cry out to the military and state government for help, KUNLE AKINRINADE reports. Seye Mulero panted like a rat that…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Owobamigbe Farm settlement, along Ileyo Isagba road, Akure in Akure North local government area of Ondo State flee from the village over fear of attack by herdsmen. It was gathered that there was a face off between a cassava farmer in the village who met some herdsmen on his farm,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Ogun State have arrested three suspects in connection with the abduction of four policemen at Aba Tuntun village, Ijebu-Igbo, in the Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state. Some hoodlums had reportedly waylaid a team of policemen in the village on Thursday, abducted four of them and shot…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five villagers fleeing from bandits have been feared drowned at Gurmana river in Shiroro local government area of Niger state. The drowned victims include three women and two children. The Nation learnt the villagers fled the community when they heard of bandit attacks in the adjoining villages. They boarded canoes to cross…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWRANGERS)-Fresh facts emerged on Saturday that herdsmen have converted the Ondo Government reserve located in the Odigbo Local Government Area into a militia camp. This indication buttressed the widespread claim that killers of Mrs Funke Olakunrin, 58-year-old daughter of the leader of pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, were herdsmen who…